Study for Lucain's "La Pharsale", Canto I
c. 1766
Medium
Graphite, with brush and brown wash, and pen and black ink, on pale gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
14.3 × 9 cm (5 11/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113626
About the Artist
Hubert François Gravelot
Hubert-François Bourguignon, known as Gravelot (1699–1773), was a leading French Rococo engraver, illustrator, and designer whose elegant draftsmanship bridged the artistic worlds of France and England. Born in Paris to a tailor, he adopted his pseudonym from a godfather and grew up alongside his elder brother, the geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. After neglecting studies at the Col...